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Post by kyokuhon on Jul 11, 2005 20:17:09 GMT
Hi, all, and hope all are well.
Well, I've been a bawu lover for years now, and recently acquired a playable hulusi. I'm wondering if anyone has a source of repertoire for these instruments and/or any experience with the tutorial book sold by CCN. Any reply would be most welcome!
Best,
K.
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Post by davidmdahl on Jul 11, 2005 20:43:06 GMT
Hello Kyokuhon,
To suppliment responses from those more knowledgeable, I have a few suggestions. Find tunes that you like from hulusi CDs and scores for other instruments, and make them work on the hulusi. I really don't know the range of the hulusi, but maybe some erhu or flute tunes would work. Maybe a better bet would be folk tunes and songs from Southern China, especially from the minority peoples who employ the hulusi.
Best wishes,
David
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Post by kyokuhon on Jul 14, 2005 2:04:36 GMT
Hi, David and all,
Thanks for the reply, and yes, you're right, I have tried using hulusi and bawu recordings, and they are a good source, even when there's heavy production. There's a good World Music Library recording of (presumably) pretty trad material from the late, lamented King Record Co. I'm hoping for a short-cut to the process of memorizing (harder, I find, as I get older) or transcribing. The range of the hulusi exactly matches that of the bawu, i.e. an octave and a second, and neither can be overblown for an upper octave, which makes most of even the simplest flute and erhu tunes unaccessable without modification.
Thanks again!
K.
BTW, we still need to talk about VN music, but I think the ball is in my court. I'll check on it and get back!
Be well, all.
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Post by zhou on Sept 5, 2006 23:59:17 GMT
i play hulusi too! i love this instrument!
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Post by kyokuhon on Oct 4, 2006 15:52:00 GMT
Hey, Zhou and all,
It's great to hear that there's another hulusi player out there! Where do you find music to play on it?
K.
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Post by jetz320 on Oct 5, 2006 3:00:28 GMT
Hi kyokuhon! Hulusi music I've seen very rarely. Since this instrument is a little uncommon. But as a hulusi player, it sounds so cool from it's mellow tone. I'd try to google up some music or something. That helps me all the time.
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Post by zhou on Oct 23, 2006 22:30:44 GMT
I dont really, i just play what i hear, i cant read music so it makes it hard to stay in band >^_^<
but mainly im focusing on Guzheng and i get to go to a competion in MArch!
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Post by zhou on Feb 9, 2007 22:05:15 GMT
yay i have another bawu
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Post by kyokuhon on Mar 27, 2007 17:07:01 GMT
Congrats, zhou! What key and from where did you get it? Do you like it?
K.
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Post by xindi on Apr 27, 2011 14:23:21 GMT
4 years later ... he didn't come back with his sexy avatar lol. If you can read chinese .... I can't - so I had to wander into China to figure it out .. you can look up where to buy the book on the right for hulusi/bawu literature from the internet: Attachments:
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Post by edcat7 on Apr 28, 2011 22:44:46 GMT
Ive seen those books for sale over the net. And for this one particular seller although the books weren't dear the postage was extortionate.
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Post by xindi on Apr 28, 2011 23:00:00 GMT
Each of those books cost around £1.50 - £2.50. No extortionate postage cost, but the flight ticket was only half a thousand though  |
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